Petra Friederichs
Bio: I finished my studies in Meteorology in 1995, and continued with a PhD in 1999 on the ‘Interannual and decadal variability of atmospheric circulation in coupled and SST-driven GCM experiments’. My habilitation in 2009 was on ‘The probabilistic interpretation of numerical model predictions and their application to extreme events’. I am leading the workgoup on ‘Climate Dynamics and Statistics’ at the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Bonn.
My research interests are in understanding, statistical modeling, and predicting of weather and climate extremes. This includes short-term forecasts, with the post-processing of model forecasts and the development of targeted verification approaches being an important work area of my research group. Another focus is on the detection and attribution of impacts of human activities on the evolution and characteristics of weather and climate extremes. I consider important the integrated view of the Earth system, bringing together dynamical and stochastic process understanding, numerical modeling, and observational data.